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Thx for this @satyanash Scipio Tex on Arky game Defensive Line Alfred Collins has spent the last few games making himself a lot of money. The big athletic DT had 7 tackles, 2 tackles for loss, a sack and a critical forced fumble. That sack came against a double team. The hustle and athletic coordination on display there is not normal for a 320 pound man. He’s didn’t happen to hit the ball. That was pure hand-eye coordination. I thought Sorrell played well in real time but he shined even more on rewatch. 7 tackles, a sack, a big QB hit and couple of hurries. Beautiful tackle for loss on an Arkansas stretch play. He also drew a hold. Trey Moore finally notched an official sack and drew a big holding call. Great hustle. He’s had three consecutive strong weeks of play. Collin Simmons was extremely disruptive when allowed to pin his ears back and go. 2 sacks, both on Arkansas’ weak link right tackle. He had a couple of bad run defense snaps and Arkansas did a good job of getting big bodies on our edges in the second half. Vernon Broughton was solid inside and had a big hit on Green’s legs as he released an errant ball. Lole gave us good snaps, but Arkansas doubled incessantly and their OL, while untalented, is physical. If there’s a deficiency on our interior DL right now, it’s that we don’t have a fourth interior guy that we really trust.

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Lane Kiffin texted a rival conference coach:Go play at 100 Sanford Drive and tell me your league is best Ole Miss head coach emphasizes strength, difficulty of life in the SEC John Brice 3 minutes ago There are five Southeastern Conference teams in the top-11 of the latest College Football Playoff rankings, and four of them are poised to be safely in the inaugural field of 12. Tennessee, despite being the No. 11 team this week, is outside the field as of now due to Boise State at No. 12 and BYU, the Big 12's top-rated team, at No. 14. Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin, his team needing to secure a road win this week at Florida and cap the regular season with a win against in-state rival Mississippi State to virtually cement its CFP bid, is joining the chorus of stumping for SEC superiority -- while also revealing a hilarious, pointed message sent to the head coach in a rival conference. "Well, I said it earlier: when people want to talk about other conferences or playoffs, or coaches make a statement about their conferences ... conference bias ... it’s very different going on the road in this conference," Kiffin said on Wednesday's SEC coaches' Zoom. "Joking, I sent a text and said to one of these other coaches, he made a statement [about their conference being the best in college football], and I said, 'Try going to 100 Sanford Drive (home of the Georgia Bulldogs) and see if you still say that. "It’s different." In fact, Kiffin explains, his team's open date this past weekend is additional evidence of SEC superiority. "Kirby (Smart) has made mention, the SEC is different. I aint’ saying that cause I’m here," Kiffin emphasized. "It ain’t rocket science when you watch football. During our bye week, I watched football in other conferences. The SEC is different. Playing in the SEC environments is different than a lot of places those guy play. "It's hard to go on the road in this conference, which always has the most NFL players, and win. It's very much like the NFL, playing in the SEC." The additions this year of both Oklahoma and Texas also leave Kiffin believing the SEC needs to stick at just eight intraconference games -- particularly as perhaps one or more SEC team is facing the very real possibility of missing an CFP invite. "To add another conference game to it, I understand money is involved and you gotta make those decisions, I don’t know that that’s in the best interest of programs to play another game and beat each other up," Kiffin said. Do his coaching brethren in the SEC agree? "I don’t know that; the ones I talk to think that," Kiffin added. "I think that’s changed, years ago we were OK going to nine (conference games), but with the Playoffs in terms of knocking each other out and other conferences and who they get to play, I think it’s probably changed that."

Nick Saban Never Held Back While Coaching Ricky Williams... 2 weeks ago Ricky Williams Shares STRONG Take On Tua’s Decision, Reveals Wild Miami Stories & Talks Playing High

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More wailing on 105 roster limit settlement... Swinney's former defensive coordinator spoke on coming to the same realization on Tuesday as well, calling the upcoming cuts "carnage." The oncoming House v. NCAA settlement will result in more money for most college football players, but less opportunity for others. As part of the settlement, the NCAA will place a hard cap of 105 players on the roster, all of whom will be eligible for a scholarship. But just about every FBS team has more than 105 players already on the roster, and would continue to do so if not for the House settlement. With Signing Day set for Dec. 4 and the transfer portal set to open Dec. 9, plans are being made for who will be on each roster beginning in 2025... and just how many current players will no longer have a spot. https://footballscoop.com/news/dabo-swinney-calls-this-coming-rule-change-the-worst-thing-in-my-whole-coaching-career

Dabo Swinney calls this coming rule change 'the worst thing in my whole coaching career' Dabo called the coming 105-man roster limit "terrible," while Brent Venables called it "carnage." Zach Barnett 3 hours ago The oncoming House v. NCAA settlement will result in more money for most college football players, but less opportunity for others. As part of the settlement, the NCAA will place a hard cap of 105 players on the roster, all of whom will be eligible for a scholarship. But just about every FBS team has more than 105 players already on the roster, and would continue to do so if not for the House settlement. With Signing Day set for Dec. 4 and the transfer portal set to open Dec. 9, plans are being made for who will be on each roster beginning in 2025... and just how many current players will no longer have a spot. "It's terrible," Dabo Swinney said Tuesday, "one of the worst things in my career." Swinney's former defensive coordinator spoke on coming to the same realization on Tuesday as well, calling the upcoming cuts "carnage." Expect similar quotes out of, oh, 130 other FBS head coaches over the coming days and weeks.

Saw blOU guys on a YouTube livestream saying you can still recruit with a 5-7 record -- just need money. He referenced Texas after Sark's first season and their "Pancake" fund... 12:45 mark

Big game for Army this week...

Coaching Carousel: What We’re Hearing At FootballScoop Revenue sharing, roster sizes and more loom over job cycle John Brice Uncertainty. Not just in the futures of college coaches and their support staff members, but most specifically as it pertains to revenue-sharing, potential roster-expansion and how it might all shake out. So, Florida is preparing to stick with Billy Napier. The Gators haven’t quit and indeed earned bowl eligibility for the second time in three seasons under Napier with Saturday’s win against slumping LSU. Similarly, sources last week and into this week tell FootballScoop that Arkansas is preparing to stick with Sam Pittman, barring something unforeseen. The Razorbacks have a top-10 win this year at home against Tennessee and should earn bowl eligibility this week at home against Louisiana Tech before closing with border rival Missouri on the road. At North Carolina, all eyes are on the 73-year-old Mack Brown, whose team has won three-straight games to earn bowl eligibility. The Tar Heels close with a road game at Boston College before their home finale against North Carolina State, which sources emphasize to FootballScoop is a very personally important game to Brown. Additionally, it’s worth monitoring things at Central Florida where a 3-0 beginning is now a 4-6 reality with a road game at West Virginia and home finale against Utah. Malzahn, 59, is well-positioned to retire if he chooses to do so. As FootballScoop has reported since last fall, Central Michigan continues to be amidst a probe into the presence of Connor Stalions on the team’s sideline in its game against Michigan State and who knew and how it transpired to have who was a then-Michigan full-time staffer on the team’s sideline for that contest. The Chippewas are mired in a five-game losing streak, at the bottom of the MAC standings and sources tell FootballScoop believe that Jim McElwain is likely to step aside at season’s end. Charles Huff has been superb this season at Marshall, has the Herd atop the Sun Belt Conference Eastern Division standings and should be undefeated in league play if not for a late letdown against Georgia Southern. The Herd have won six of their last seven and control their destiny to play for the Sun Belt Conference crown. They are positioned for a fourth bowl in as many seasons under Huff, who is still on an original four-year deal that expires in early 2025. Southern Miss: The Golden Eagles parted weeks ago with Will Hall and have moved deep into their search process. Once considered arguably among the top non-power conference football jobs, Southern Miss has slipped throughout the past decade-plus. Facilities and funding are key issues for the school, and it’s a job made tougher by Lane Kiffin’s ability to steer flagship school Ole Miss into the upper echelon of the national college football landscape. If the Golden Eagles can land him, Derrick Nix might be the top candidate, per sources. He's a former star running back at Southern Miss who spent more than 15 seasons in-state as an assistant at Ole Miss before garnering the offensive coordinator role this season at Auburn. Georgia's Todd Hartley, the Bulldogs' assistant head coach and tight ends coach, also is an intriguing name at Southern Miss, sources tell FootballScoop. East Carolina: Maybe the best job thus far to open up, the Pirates have canvassed college football in their search, which features prominent names with direct ties to the school such as Garrett Riley and Joe Sloan, the offensive play-callers at Clemson and LSU, respectively, to sitting head coaches such as Western Kentucky’s Tyson Helton and, FootballScoop has been told, Georgia Southern’s Clay Helton as well, though Tyson Helton has been considered to be much more deeply involved, per sources. Skip Holtz is a name also linked to the ECU job, a spot where he won 38 games in five years from 2005-09 and also led the Pirates to four-straight bowl games. But perhaps interim head coach Blake Harrell, who's been the program's defensive coordinator the past five seasons, is going to make the search moot. Harrell has guided the Pirates to three consecutive wins and bowl eligibility still with two games, at North Texas and home against Navy, remaining on their schedule. Plus, ECU has offensive coordinator John David Baker, a Lane Kiffin and Charlie Weis Jr. protegè who's helped the offense score 28 or more points in six games already this season. Rice: After firing Mike Bloomgren amidst a disappointing season that appeared promising with almost 20 returning starters, Rice has vetted a number of significant candidates and particularly have explored a number of offensive coaches. Sources tell FootballScoop that LSU offensive coordinator Joe Sloan, SMU offensive coordinator Casey Woods and Oregon assistant Drew Mehringer, who is a Midland, Texas, native and has already coached in the state at both Houston and Texas. FootballScoop also was told that Nebraska defensive coordinator Tony White has been vetted by the school, which also looked at Holtz. Former Washington State coach Nick Rolovich has spoken with Rice officials about the job. Multiple sources tell FootballScoop that K.C. Keeler is of prime interest to Rice officials. Keeler's coached the past 11 years in the Lone Star State and has Sam Houston State at eight wins on the season with the potential to win out and play for the Conference USA title. He's deftly navigated the program's transition from FCS to FBS across the past couple of seasons. Kennesaw State: Tre Lamb, Buster Faulkner, Drew Cronic and Jerry Mack are among those coaches sources indicate to FootballScoop that already are or will be in the mix. Folks directly involved in the Kennesaw State search already have spoken to multiple candidates, either by phone or Zoom, FootballScoop has learned. Hartley could be a dynamic fit in this post, but Kennesaw State is going to have to show its next head coach an extremely elevated financial commitment; the position has previously been among the five lowest-paying FBS jobs. Ball State has been an attractive Group of Five job in the past; an assistant such as Ohio State offensive line coach Justin Frye could be a very strong play for the Cardinals. Frye is an Indiana native who’s worked extremely closely with both Chip Kelly and Ryan Day across the past seven seasons of his coaching career. Indiana defensive coordinator Bryant Haines absolutely is a name to watch with this job; he's a former all-conference linebacker at Ball State who started all four years of his career before he graduated and transitioned into coaching. What Haines, under the guidance of head coach Curt Cignetti, has helped the Hoosiers do this season is merely the biggest story in the sport. Undefeated Indiana has the nation's No. 7 scoring defense at least than 14 points per game and the No. 3 unit in total defense at just 255.5 yards allowed per game. Another name to watch is Notre Dame assistant head coach/running backs coach Deland McCullough, who has made clear his desire to be a head coach and who is a former MAC player who starred at Miami (Ohio), had a brief professional playing career and also won a Super Bowl as the running backs coach of the Kansas City Chiefs. Also, Cory Sanders -- the assistant head coach and safeties coach at Pittsburgh -- has previous head coaching experience in Indiana as an NCAA Division II leader. Billy Cosh, the first-year Stony Brook head coach, previously was on staff at Indiana and has engineered one of college football's most momentous turnarounds in his debut season atop Stony Brook. Ole Miss special teams coordinator Jake Schoonover also is a name to watch at Ball State. A former Bowling Green assistant coach, Schoonover has blossomed in recent years as one of the sport’s top up-and-coming coordinators. In 2022 under Butch Jones at Arkansas State, Schoonover had multiple top-35 units nationally for an Arkansas State program that struggled in many other facets. His Rebels special teams units have been dynamic since he teamed with Kiffin prior to the 2023 season. Ole Miss is ranked No. 3 nationally in net punting and No. 8 in kickoff return defense; the aggregate efficiency ratings show Ole Miss as college football’s No. 4 special teams unit. It’s still extremely early in the process at both Temple and Florida Atlantic, but a couple points to consider: Bowling Green coach Scot Loeffler has the Falcons in position to potentially be in the MAC Championship and is bowl eligible for a third-straight year; he's a former Temple offensive coordinator. But sources Monday tell FootballScoop that the Temple search is likely to have a strong focus on Elijah Robinson, a former Owls assistant who climbed to the role of defensive run game coordinator. At FAU, a couple of extremely bright offensive minds could be factors in Charlie Weis Jr., a former offensive coordinator there under Lane Kiffin. Also, Faulkner has turned heads nationally with his work orchestrating the Georgia Tech offense. It will be imperative for the next head coach to zero in on the finer details of his contract, because FAU officials have deployed one of the industry's more bizarre clauses: If FAU terminates a head coach with time remaining on his contract and without cause, that head coach must agree to be reassigned to a different position within the athletics department in order to receive his full buyout; otherwise the school is obligated to pay just 20 weeks of severance pay. "They basically tried to.reassign Willie Taggart to be a stadium janitor after they fired him," a source with direct knowledge told FootballScoop. Here is the clause:

https://footballscoop.com/news/luke-fickell-when-asked-who-will-call-the-offense-why-does-it-matter

College Football Playoff CHAOS Coming - SEC Left Out? Seedings are gonna be ridiculous to justify -- says South Carolina at #7 in SEC probably would go win Big 12 right now 😎

Prayers to Julie, BV, his family and loved ones... 🙏🙏🙏 "OU football coach Brent Venables says wife Julie's cancer has returned" Oklahoma football coach Brent Venables and his wife, Julie, watch as their daughter, Laney Venables, is introduced before playing in a Class 3A girls state basketball game between Community Christian and Roland at State Fair Arena in Oklahoma City, Tuesday, March 5, 2024. FUCK CANCER 😡 https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/ou-football-coach-brent-venables-says-wife-julies-cancer-has-returned/ar-AA1ukqcR?ocid=BingNewsSerp

Lane Kiffin reveals there are SEC coaches who don't want to play in conference championship game Andrew Olson | 3 hours ago Lane Kiffin may have made things a bit awkward with Greg Sankey for some of the league coaches. The Ole Miss head coach candidly revealed that not every SEC title contender is looking forward to playing in Atlanta next month. Kiffin shared Monday that he has talked to coaches who would rather avoid playing in the SEC Championship Game if losing the game means dropping out of College Football Playoff contention. The winner, though, as Kiffin mentions, would almost certainly receive one of the byes for the top 4 conference champions. Texas and Texas A&M are the only SEC teams with just 1 conference loss. Since the Longhorns and Aggies play in the regular season, the SEC Championship Game is guaranteed to include a team with at least 2 total losses. (Texas has only lost to Georgia. Texas A&M has 2 total losses to Notre Dame and South Carolina.) With so many 2-loss teams fighting for Playoff spots, it’s understandable that coaches are worried a 3rd loss might drop them out of 1 of the 12 CFP spots. This is the first year of the 12-team Playoff field. It’s not immediately clear how the selection committee will handle conference championship game losses for at-large candidates. Plenty of fans and coaches are eagerly awaiting to see how everything plays out.

Has Sark ever run HBack insert ?? Might help us with a couple interior rushes against an even defensive front...

Yeah, if a player goes in this 1st portal window, SEC now allows transfers to play immediately. Grad transfers have immediate eligibility too...

Maybe Arch sticks around 3 more years to get more starts and experience???

Cole Cubelic giving alotta love to Texas D-line, "the most underrated part of this Texas team" 🤘 22min mark

Georgia beats Tennessee with scheme ON OFFENSE, Florida proves a point against LSU & Alabama rolls

Maybe no Poggi ??? Herman fired